Matt Hewson
Two teenage soloists will feature at Orchestra Geelong’s second concert of 2023 when the much-loved community orchestra presents its Young Artists for a New World of Music program this weekend.
Clarinettist Amanda Briese, 17, and violinist Seth Latham, 19, two of the ensemble’s youngest musicians, will star when Orchestra Geelong performs three works at the R.W. Gibson Centre at Christian College Senior School.
Mr Latham will perform the solo for Beethoven’s lyrical Romance No. 2 in F Major, while Ms Briese will solo in Mozart’s last great work, his Clarinet Concerto in A Major.
The final work will be Dvorak’s 9th Symphony, “From the New World”, played in its entirety
The concert program was arranged by Orchestra Geelong conductor David Filip and will also include the Acknowledgement of Country, composed by Deborah Cheetham OAM.
Orchestra president Kat Aston-Mourney said the ensemble was thrilled to share the talents of the two young soloists with the audience.
“Amanda and Seth are both really promising young musicians that have been part of Orchestra Geelong over a number of years, so we’ve seen them grow up through their musical journey with us,” she said.
Ms Aston-Mourney said she was looking forward to the orchestra performing its second concert at the new Gibson Centre.
“It’s a purpose-built performance venue, which is really impressive and a lovely venue to play in,” she said.
“Prior to this, Geelong just didn’t have an acoustically good venue that wasn’t the size of Costa Hall. (The Gibson Centre) allows all the work that we do on the music to be heard at its best.”
Orchestra Geelong perform this Sunday, August 13 at the R.W. Gibson Centre at 3pm.
